German Language Assistant
The Crypt School, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, GL2 5AE4 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
1 October 2024 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
19 September 2024
Job details
Job role
- Other support roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time: Half day per week (5 hrs) or one day per fortnight
Contract type
- Fixed term - Start date as soon as possible to 23rd May 2025
Pay scale
- British Council Rate
What skills and experience we're looking for
German Language Assistant (part-time, fixed term – 35 weeks) Start date: As soon as possible
Closing date: Noon, 1st October 2024
As per The British Council recommendation
The Crypt School is seeking to appoint a dynamic part-time German Assistant to join the teaching staff in October 2024. The role will include up to half a day per week or one day per fortnight of teaching, subject to the number of students studying the language in the Sixth Form.
As a Language Assistant at Crypt your main duty will be the planning and delivery of one-to-one sessions with our sixth form language students to support their classroom learning. The themes of these sessions will follow the relevant AQA A Level course.You may also be asked to work with small groups of GCSE students.
The main goal of these sessions will be to improve the students' spoken fluency and accuracy in the target language, whilst deepening their cultural knowledge with reference to current affairs and native media where possible.You will also focus on improving students' exam technique where appropriate.
Native level proficiency in German is essential as well as a desire to work with talented young people who have a passion for languages. Knowledge of the AQA German A-Level course is desirable.
What the school offers its staff
We welcome applications from colleagues who enjoy working as part of a team and who seek to contribute actively to the promotion of inclusion, achievement, and enrichment activities throughout the School. Ultimately, we are seeking teachers who will enthuse pupils in this oversubscribed selective school.
The Crypt School is an equal opportunity employer, and we value having a workforce as diverse as the city and region we serve. We therefore welcome, develop and promote people from all sections of the community, and we particularly welcome applications from groups who are currently under-represented within our workforce such as from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic candidates and disabled candidates. The aim of our policy is to ensure that no job applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment because of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.
Our recruitment selection criteria and procedures are frequently reviewed to ensure that individuals are selected, promoted and treated on the basis of their relevant merits and abilities and that no applicant or employee is disadvantaged by provisions, criteria or practices which cannot be shown to be justified.
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.
Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.
Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children
You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
Applying for the job
Please complete the online application.
CVs are not accepted.
About The Crypt School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- View all Secondaryjobs
- School size
- 1093 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- The Crypt School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- sbailey@crypt.gloucs.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 01452530291
Founded in 1539 and set in nearly 30 acres of grounds, The Crypt School’s vision is derived from its Latin motto, “Floreat Schola Cryptiensis”: floreat means “to flourish” and at The Crypt we wish all our students, as well as our staff, to flourish in all that they do. In order to achieve that vision, we strive to create the best possible environment and culture within which our students can learn, develop essential key skills and personal attributes, make friends and enjoy their school lives; equally, we wish for our staff to flourish in their work at school, and always strive to place their welfare at the centre of our work and planning. The School has grown significantly over the last five years, especially since the admission of girls into the main school in September 2018. Today, The Crypt School is Gloucester’s only co-educational selective school with a student roll of over 1100. The student body is a diverse, caring and enthusiastic one and our staff are a highly professional, caring and generous group of people who commit themselves fully to the academic, pastoral and extra-curricular life of the School. The School is a vibrant place to both learn within and to work at; it is a place where learning is valued for its own sake, within an environment of strong pastoral care. At the centre of our school life, is a powerful sense of community, where students are supported and encouraged to learn and engage with each other. Confident, friendly and respectful, the high quality of our student’s personal development is remarkable and is one of the greatest strengths of the School.
The School has benefited from significant capital investment over recent years which has enhanced the learning environment for both students and staff alike. Recent projects have included the building of two new teaching blocks and a sports pavilion; the refurbishment of the sports hall, the creation of an outdoor netball and tennis area and giving enhanced facilities to our growing sixth form, which now numbers over 330 students. Later this year, and thanks to a recent Wolfson Fund grant, two science laboratories will be completely refurbished.
In March 2024, the School received an outstanding Ofsted report in all areas and our curriculum was judged as outstanding. Geography was one of the subjects inspected and viewed as a particular strength: “The school ensures that the curriculum makes a significant contribution to pupils’ wider development, such as through residential visits, field work and hearing from visiting speakers.”
Staff work hard and give generously of their time to the life and wellbeing of the School. Time and money is invested in their professional development, and each member of the teaching staff is equipped with a laptop and iPad; other benefits also enhance the working experience of colleagues at the School (https://cryptschool.org/explore-our-school/work-with-us/)
The Crypt School is located just outside of the City of Gloucester in the West of England. Gloucester is known for its 11th century Cathedral and close; for Blackfriars, which is a stunning example of a 13th century medieval priory site; the British Waterways Museum, which celebrates the city’s industrial past, and now the vibrant Gloucester Quays, which has a selection of shops and restaurants. Gloucester is a vibrant and growing city, and the School is conveniently located close to the City, and close to good road and rail links to Cheltenham and the surrounding region, including Bristol for example.
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